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Method

Cook the pasta in boiling salted water for 8 minutes. Add the beans and cook for a further 3 minutes until both the pasta and beans are just tender. Meanwhile, tip the tuna and its oil into a bowl and flake the fish, keeping the pieces quite large. Stir in the lemon zest, capers, chilli and plenty of salt and pepper.

Drain the pasta and beans, return them to the pan and toss with the tuna mixture. Add a little olive oil if you need to moisten everything. Serve the tuna and lemon pasta on its own or with a tomato and onion salad.

A simple & tasty dish which I make regularly that goes down well with all the family. I use fresh tuna rather than tinned due to the texture of the meat but tinned is a good substitute, I put lemon juice in as well & make double the amount as everyone wants to take some to wok as pack the next day.

A healthy and quick lunchtime meal. I recommend adding some of the lemon juice, if not it tastes a little bland. I know it's more expensive, but using tuna fillets instead of tuna chunks makes a big difference.

Really good and simple pasta salad (we always make enough for a lunch box the next day.) The capers, lemon and chili add punch to a dish that might look boring at first glance and really tie the flavours together. Even my boyfriend, who insists he doesn't like tuna, admitted with some wonderment that this dish works precisely because of the tuna.

Im not the biggest fan of tuna but decided to give this recipe a go because of all the positive reviews and im so pleased i did, it was fantastic! I tweaked it abit tho, I used peas instead of beans and as I only had tuna in brine in the storecupboard I drained it really well and added extravirgin olive oil. I also felt it needed a squeeze of the lemon aswell as the zest. I also made double so will be having it as a cold pasta salad for lunch today :)

Love the idea but felt there was too much pasta and not enough of the other ingredients, which made it a bit bland. Maybe halving the amount of pasta and just making it a meal for two would be better. May try again.

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